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In my time here on /lit/ I've discovered a fair number of authors that I would know nothing about otherwise. I guess I just don't typically run in literate circles, but I would never have heard of Borges, Wolfe, or Gaddis without coming here.
Let's have a thread for good authors that are obscure even by /lit/ standards. Post authors you rarely see discussed here, but that you've read and know the greatness of firsthand. Let's try to name as many names as we can.
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>>9796045
Well I'm sure this won't just devolve into namedropping and other forms of pseudo-intellectual posturing
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The best spanish playwright, from the spanish golden age.
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>>9796061
*Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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>>9796045
Dezso Kosztolanyi (Especially Kornel Esti, which is hilarious through and through)
Renata Adler (spectacular prose, reminded me of Wolfe)
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>>9796045
Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
He's being discussed on here more lately, but not nearly enough. He's like if Kafka and Joyce had a baby.
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>>9797488
lurk more
>rare recs
Emanuel Carnevali - a very good italian american modernist, similar to pessoa, one rating on goodreads
kenneth fearing - modernist poet, nyrb classics published some of his pulp novels but he has good poetry
Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq - An arabic Laurence Sterne, he published Leg over Leg in Paris in the 1850s, cool book
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Alberto Laiseca. He literally wrote the best Argentinian novel: "Los Sorias", a massive, not very well-known (even in Argentina), incredibly bizarre and funny +1000 pages book which sadly has not been translated into English. I've read that his style is similar to Pynchon's, but I haven't (yet) read Pynchon so I'm not sure how accurate that is.
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>>9798187
>claims author literally wrote the best Argentinian novel
>never read it
classic /lit/
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>>9798292
What do you mean? I'm Argentinian, I've read it in Spanish. The guy I haven't read is Pynchon.
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>>9798292
Learn to read better.
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>>9798319
Argentinian eh? Have you heard of Adam Buenosayres?
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Metcalfe
Dara
A. Theroux
Bellow
Kleist
Walser
Musil
H. Roth
Sebald
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>>9798329
Yes, I have. Fite me irl if you think Laiseca's not the best Argentinian novel ever written.
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Patrick White, the only Australian to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Well worth a read.
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>>9798337
i was just curious, i found a translation of adam buenosayres and wondered if you read it and enjoyed it.
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>>9798345
Tbqh I thought you were a snob Argentinian, because Adam Buenosayres is regarded as one of the greatest classics of Argentinian literature (think kino lit not apt for plebs). In fact, I haven't read it (but I never read a single bad thing about it). Now I'm gonna have to read it.
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>>9798356
cool. yeah i have it being shipped to me soon. i'm pretty excited, it looks very interesting.
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